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Friday, August 8, 2014

Andrew: Hello dear readers! Last fall Sarah and I posted our personal rankings of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films that had been released up to that point, save for The Avengers, because we knew it would top the rankings. Since that post, Marvel Studios has released three films - Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and last week's Guardians of the Galaxy - bringing the grant total of MCU films to a nice, round ten films.

With that in mind, we decided it was perfect time to revisit those rankings to include the three aforementioned films, plus we're including The Avengers this time. As a reminder, when we say the "Marvel Cinematic Universe" we're talking about the films that Marvel Studios themselves, the ones they actually have the rights to make films of; so no Spider-Man films (Sony), no X-Men or Fantastic Four films (20th Century Fox), etc.

Check out our lists below, starting with Sarah's personal rankings!

SARAH’S
RANKINGS

10.) The Incredible Hulk

I’m not going to lie, I actually thought that
this movie wasn’t even connected to the rest of the Marvel movies. That’s how
much this movie is forgettable. It’s sad really, because the only thing that
connects this movie to any of the others in the Tony Stark cameo during the
credits. And since they’ve replaced Ed Norton with Mark Ruffalo it’s even more
of a throw away film.

9.) Iron Man 2

The more I look back on this movie the more I realize
that it just wasn’t as good as it should have been. This movie was just lacking
in pretty much everything from good action to a strong bad guy. I recently
caught part of the beginning of this movie again and the comedy was so cheesy
that it fell flat. Such a shame.

8. Iron Man 3

I’m going to defer to my original thoughts of this
movie: I still don't quite
understand why I didn't like this one. Until we watch it again, I'm going to
stick with I think I was just in Iron Man overload and was little tired of the
kitsch.

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Directed By: James Gunn (Slither) Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Lee PaceRating: PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, and for some languageRun Time: 2 hours, 1 minuteSynopsis: A treasure hunter (Pratt), an assassin (Saldana), a muscle-headed alien with a quick temper (Bautista), a walking/talking raccoon (Cooper) and his living tree sidekick (Diesel) band together first to escape prison to sell a priceless and dangerous artifact, then to ultimately save their galaxy from a crazed zealot named Ronan the Accuser (Pace).REVIEWSarah: Hello readers! We have been a little quiet lately but we
are back with one of our most anticipated reviews of the year, Marvel's Guardiansof the Galaxy! We were SO excited for this movie. There's nothing like
a Marvel movie to round out the summer and this one did not disappoint. If you have no idea what this movie is about, we'll try to set it up as best we can. It stars Chris Pratt (Moneyball) as Peter Quill, an Earthling who was abducted as a child and has
grown up with intergalactic thieves. After searching for an orb-like object for a buyer, he's hunted down by a pair of bounty hunters - an anthropomorphic raccoon named Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) and a living tree-like alien named Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel) - as well as an alien assassin named Gamora (Zoe Saldana). Andrew: Gamora is the adoptive daughter of Thanos (Josh Brolin), the big purple bad guy we saw at the end of The Avengers, and she's helping retrieve the orb for a baddie called Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace), who said he'll obtain the orb for Thanos in return for his help in destroying the planet Xander.S: When Quill, Rocket, Groot and Gamora are all arrested and detained at the same prison, they join together - along with another alien named Drax the Destroyer (WWE's Dave Bautista) who wants to come along so he can kill Ronan as revenge for killing his wife and daughter - to escape. Adventure ensues and produces one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long
time!